Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: normal tasksel has to run aptitude --without-recommends because there are (still; see #388290) a great many bogus recommends that would unduely bloat the tasks it installs.
However, according to #417689, if a user uses aptitude with recommends and later runs tasksel, it can remove lots of packages: > The problem is that, in aptitude, --without-recommends > triggers the removal of automatically installed packages > that are recommends and not depends: so it should be avoided. So I guess that aptitude needs a way to get the --without-recommends behavior when installing new packages, without the behavior of recoming old automatically installed recommends. Or alternatively, is this just an aptitude bug? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070516-1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070516-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.4-4 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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